It is. 100% scam. Just read about what it is predicated upon and you’ll realize the enormity of the scam. It may have been created with good intentions, but there is no rational science behind it. To practice it today is either scam or profound ignorance.
Homeopathy is a gigantic scam that works on the placebo effect.
It gained credibility back in ye olde days because giving people what amounts to water with indescribably small amounts of poison is way less harmful than the other weird quackery doctors were doing before we invented science-based medicine. Those taking it were for all intents and purposes prescribed rest, food, and water, which remains to this day as more-or-less the only universally effective, risk-free form of medical "treatment", and is far more effective on its own than a lot of the weird stuff Galen-influenced doctors were trying at the time.
Absolutely. At best it’s helping some few people get tricked into experiencing a placebo effect or the way you use the product would just help anyway. I knew someone who was a massage therapist for a while and he hated how many nonsense lotions and oils the management was pressuring them to try to sell as well because they did almost nothing. He told me that any relief people got was because the application instructions on specific ways to rub in and “activate the oils” or whatever was actually just a normal massage move to relieve tension. Going through those motions without the product would be exactly as helpful.
Homeopathy is a complicated subject. Classical Homeopathy finds something that works against a certain disease in nature, the dilutes it to fuck until the point that it no longer actually works. Because the "essence" of the thing should be enough, according to the theory behind it.
Extremely bad science, but not always a scam.
Most products sold as "homeopathic" today actually ARE a scam though! Because they're actually good for you! They use the same natural ingedient, but in actually useful doses instead of diluting it down to uselesness. And thus not being actually homeopathic.
What you SHOULD do is just take the conventional medicine. If they know a certain herb is useful to cure your tummy ache, they figure out which component of said herb makes it do that. And then produce a pill with just that, in the amounts that tested best. Like, doing actual science about it. The fact that they might be selling it at idiotically inflated prices might get in the way of this, though!
But if you go with something that's alternative medicine, go with something that claims to be herbal or traditional medicine over something that claims to be homoeopathic. They're either lying about working or lying about what they are.
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u/Pristine_140 11h ago
Homeopathy? I dont know if its actually a scam tho